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[Doctor Gollum]

....
 or productivity drops because everyone is constantly having to mess around swapping cars around waiting for the charger to be available......

apparently that was one of the excuses at Heinz for NOT providing charging stations regardless of who was paying for it) Ironically, work tied in with  some lease company to provide leccy cars.

Good to see them using a bit of common sense  People are workshy enough without encouragement.

We have access to an EV scheme, but it's salary dependent, so even if you can afford to and want to lease something half decent you can't because of an arbitrary 15% of net salary cap because the payments come out of your pay. You don't even have the ability to top it up.

Which makes a mockery of the scheme being offered as it's effectively closed to 80% of the staff

Putting petrol into a car that's bought and paid for is still more cost effective than leasing a sitbox Chinesium EV... Even at £1.54 a litre and 21 mpg

[TheBoy]

This only works, of course, if visitors/workers/residents can easily get there on clean, reliable public transport, and this particular area seems to have that.

And there lieth the problem.  I think public transport is generally usable within the city centre.  It all falls apart as soon as you try from even the suburbs.


Take my journey into work, should I chose to use public transport all the way...

1.5m walk to bus - 40m? allowing a few minutes grace so as not to miss it
1hr on the bus to do about 11 miles
A short, but around 12 min walk due to a road from bus station to train station
Clearly, as public transport is not joined up, about a 50m wait for next train
An hour on train to one end of Brum city centre
About 10-12min walk to the other side of the city, if I choose to brave a slapping walking through the usual Little Palestine, about 25m if I walk around avoid that area - which I certainly would at my normal morning arrival time.

It's around 4hrs each way.  If I could park, it's about 1hr15m in the car.  Sadly, you can't use public carparks in Brum city centre, as the gangs control them and use the parked cars for parts on demand.


And, to add a nail in the coffin of public transport, Banbury's official train station drop-off point, as still signposted, WILL get you a £90 fine each and every time, reduced to £45 if you pay within 30 days.  Only registered taxi registrations are allowed to use the drop-off, even though they have a adjacent taxi rank, as part of local council corruption.

[TheBoy]

Oh, and that assumes the Choltern Slug runs on time. Which it rarely does.

[Doctor Gollum]

Work wanted to know why I had to be off to take mum down to Chichester for daily antibiotic infusions for a week...

Actually had to get a note from the hospital to confirm they wouldn't provide transport.

Bus/train is 2 hours each way assuming they operate over Easter weekend and taxi is £50 each way plus waiting and 1.5x for the Bank holidays. Not withstanding being unable to wear a shoe on the affected leg and walking with two sticks.

It's cheaper for me to be off unpaid and miss the flying/trip pay than use "public" transport 

[Andy B]

I wouldn't know where to start using public transport to get me 25 miles to work by 6 in the morning 

[Doctor Gollum]

I wouldn't know where to start using public transport to get me 25 miles to work by 6 in the morning 

The day before for me

[TheBoy]

A colleague lives on the outskirts of Brum, and his bus is over an hour. Although it does drop him 400yrs from the building.

[STEMO]

A colleague lives on the outskirts of Brum, and his bus is over an hour. Although it does drop him 400yrs from the building.

Hmmmm.....surely he'd be dead before he got to work? 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I wouldn't know where to start using public transport to get me 25 miles to work by 6 in the morning 

The day before for me

Not even a remote possibility for me.

[Andy B]

A colleague lives on the outskirts of Brum, and his bus is over an hour. Although it does drop him 400yrs from the building.

Hmmmm.....surely he'd be dead before he got to work? 

[tunnie]

There are I think about 90 chargers here at work, which you can book much like a meeting room. I've not yet used one because I can easily charge enough at home. It's super cheap for away from home charging though. They charge 20p kWh and the Shell down the road would be 70-90p ish per kWh.

You have to bring your own cable as well, all to much faff and because it's 3.5 kWh at home, it makes no sense to charge at work.

If i lived in Wales and commuted to work a couple of days a week it would be good though. That said none of them are fast chargers, think some are 7 and maybe some are 22  kWh, so not sure. So not exactly fast